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Undersea, surface, and maritime domain awareness technologies for naval and coastal defense operations.
NATO's maritime domain faces growing threats from submarine proliferation, undersea cable sabotage, and contested sea lanes. Technologies for autonomous underwater operations, maritime surveillance, and subsea infrastructure protection are critical to alliance security.
Maritime defense: $35B by 2028. Autonomous underwater vehicles: $5.2B. Undersea cable protection: $3B emerging. Maritime domain awareness: $8B.
Autonomous underwater swarms. Subsea cable monitoring. Acoustic intelligence. Wireless subsea power. Low-cost modular AUVs. Bioluminescent marking technologies.